Washington State head football coach Mike Leach said Wednesday he has entered a bracket pool for the NCAA Tournament, but not “in the Washington way.”

Mike Leach. (Getty Images)

That statement, of course, was a jab at UW’s betting scandal in 2003, when Huskies coach Rick Neuheisel was fired for participating in a high-stakes March Madness pool, among other allegations, and the subsequent retirement of athletic director Barbara Hedges.